Monday, September 10, 2012

The Coolest Thing you Read Today

Will be this.There are many cases of zombiefied creatures in the animal kingdom. Including one that attacks the roly poly or pill bug. The ant below, in an mix of The Walking Dead and Invasion of the Body Snatchers, has been captured by a body snatching fungi, that sends directions to the ant's brain, forcing it to cling to a leaf, while the fungus grows into the leaf. Eventually a spike grows from the ant into the leaf, leaving the spore.

Read more at Life's little Mysteries.

Now if the CDC had only warned us against this.


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